World Trade Center

June 22, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Member of Al Qaeda-Allied Organization Visits Washington

Writing at the Daily Beast, Eli Lake has the scoop o...

May 23, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

Why We Need to Know Why — Honoring Attorney General Mukasey

Last night in New York City, I had the privilege of presenting former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey with the 2012 Freedom Flame Award, an annual honor bestowed by Frank Gaffney’s...

May 8, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Releases Vdeo of American Captured in Pakistan

Al Qaeda has released its first video of Warren Weinstein, an American citizen who was kidnapped in Lahore, Pakistan in August 2011. In the videotape, Weinstein pleaded with US President Barack O...

March 1, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

Releasing the Blind Sheikh?

It is too early to tell, but not too early to be very worried.

February 27, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer The Long War Journal

Egyptian Islamic Group Plans to Sue Interior Ministry Over Torture

The Egyptian Gama'a al-Islamiyya plans to sue the Egyptian Interior Ministry because members of the organization were "tortured by t...

January 23, 2012 |

A Radical’s Radical

In early May, a little over a week after President Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Texas congressman Ron Paul staked out his position on the man who plotted...

December 20, 2011 |

The Company Ron Paul Keeps

The Republican Jewish Coalition announced this month that congressman Ron Paul would not be among the six guests invited to participate in its Republican Presidential Candidates Forum. “He&...

December 12, 2011 |

Concern for Egypt

Now that runoff results are in from the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, it’s clear that the Islamists are running the board. As Samuel Tadros writes in the...

November 23, 2011 | Lee Smith Doubleday

The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilization

Soon after the World Trade Center towers fell, leaving ashes floating over journalist Lee Smith’s Brooklyn neighborhood, he left for Cairo to find out “why the Arabs hate us.” H...

October 20, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Iran’s Military/ Industrial/ Terrorist/ Political Complex

AKA, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, soon could have nuclear weapons.

October 17, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Blind Sheikh’s Son Killed in US Airstrike in Afghanistan

The son of the 'Blind Sheikh,' the spiritual leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is in a US jail for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, was killed in a US airstrike in Afgh...

October 17, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

3 Egyptians Killed in Recent Predator Strike in North Waziristan

Friday's Predator airstrike in North Waziristan killed three Egyptians closely linked to the Haqqani Network. The son of the "Blind Sheikh," the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is s...

October 13, 2011 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard

The Copts Will Fight

But they won’t win.

October 12, 2011 | R. James Woolsey National Review Online

Zuhdi Jasser’s Counter-Jihad

Co-authored by Seth Leibsohn Shortly after 9/11, many thought it was imperative to teach about and promote the heroes of that deadly day. One such hero...

September 30, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Awlaki’s Death a Delayed Counterterrorism Success

Anwar al Awlaki has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Yemen, bringing an end to the life of one of al Qaeda’s most effective recruiters. Awlaki had an especially s...

September 14, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer Middle East Quarterly

Early Warnings Ignored

September 11: A Decade Later

September 12, 2011 |

How the Tragedy Made Canada a Bolder, Prouder Nation

How much has Canada changed in the last decade? Consider this: As the World Trade Center rubble was still smouldering, NDP Leader Alexa McDonough declared: “As responsible international cit...

September 6, 2011 |

How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right

In a world of wishful thinkers, Commissioner Kelly is a realist.

August 9, 2011 |

Death By a Thousand Cuts

See all those security lines? Just because al Qaeda's recent attacks haven't succeeded doesn't mean the terrorists are failing.

July 26, 2011 |

Terror Strikes Norway

Just one year ago, authorities in Oslo broke up an al Qaeda-directed bomb plot that originated in northern Pakistan. Good intelligence, including intercepted emails between an al Qaeda planner an...